School: Gort na Mara (Seafield) (roll number 11565)
- Location:
- Donaghintraine, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Ghathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0168, Page 117
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - When I was 17 years old in 1897 I fished a boat with 6 of a crew John Scanlon, Willie Harkin, Michael Keenan, Cat Collcarig, John Dowd and an old skipper James Mullarkey. We had a boat 24 feet long and 10 feet wide with 4 oars and a long net 600 fathoms long and 14 fathoms deep. In every 5 fathoms were had a stone sunk and covered with a piece of a bag and tied on to the bottom rope. In every yard on top of rope was a cork. We left Kileswairneack shore and pulled the boat about one mile to the drafting ground at Carrickcadew. The old skipper dropped a 4 claw anchor and shot his net in a circle, left 400 yards of a mouth, dropped another anchor and made the boat fast(continues on next page)
